Will Alexander is a poet, aphorist, playwright, essayist, philosopher,
visual artist, pianist, and native of Los Angeles. The author of nearly
thirty books, his awards and honors include a Whiting Fellowship for
Poetry in 2001, a California Arts Council Fellowship in 2002, the
PEN/Oakland Josephine Miles Award in 2007, and an American Book Award in
2013 for Singing In Magnetic Hoofbeat: Essays, Prose, Texts,
Interviews, and a Lecture. In 2016 he
was awarded the prestigious Jackson Prize for poetry, which is among the
most substantial given to an American poet.

Jian Huang’s
parents brought her to the United States from Shanghai, China, when she
was six years old. She grew up in South Los Angeles and earned her
degree in Art History from the University of Southern California. She
has worked for several social service organizations, including LA
Conservation Corps, Homeboy Industries and LA County Arts Commission.
Her work has appeared in Entropy, Los Angeles Review of Books, ALOUD,
and Tongue & Groove among others. She is the recipient of a 2016 PEN
Emerging Voices fellowship. Jian is currently working on her first
memoir about the humorous and lonely journey to the American Dream.

Sesshu Foster’s poems have recently appeared in Párrafo, The Poetry
Loft, La Bloga, The L.A. Telephone Book. Vol. 1, CultureStr/ke, Ping
Pong, Lana Turner Journal, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. A video
version of his poem, “The Movie Version: Hell to Eternity,” by artist
Aturo Romo-Santillano was exhibited in Washington DC at the
Smithsonian’s “Crosslines” May 2016 exhibit. His most recent books are
Atomik Aztex and World Ball Notebook, which won the American Book Award.
He has taught composition and literature in East L.A. for 30 years. He
has also taught writing at the University of Iowa, Pomona College, the
University of California at Santa Cruz, and Naropa University at the
California Institute of the Arts.

Rocío Carlos is the author of A World Below (Mindmade books, 2014) and co-author of ex her pt
(wirecutter collective, 2016). Selections of her collaborative work in
progress with Rachel McLeod Kaminer, Attendance appear in Cultural
Weekly. She lives and works in Los Ángeles.

Mark Valley is an
accomplished film and television actor, West Point Graduate and Army
Veteran who now lives in Los Angeles, CA. He is a comic and writer as
well, slugging it out writing several TV pilots, one of which is being
shot in November in his hometown in Northern New York. He is just
recently started submitting his stories for publication. He is an
advocate for veteran’s causes, mental health, and urban cycling.

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About the Bureau

The Poetic Research Bureau is a valise fiction and portable literary service in Northeast Los Angeles.

Our living room at 951 Chung King Rd in Chinatown hosts an extended community of autodidacts and guessworkers caught up in language, inquiry and the unguarded arts. Just as it is: a community free school by day, and by night, a non-professional public forum for presentations, readings, screenings and sundry intellectual exchanges.

As an out-of-pocket California milk-crate boosterist enterprise, the PRB also serves as the irregular literary umbrella for projects such as occasional poetry journal The Germ ('97-'05), edited by Andrew Maxwell and Macgregor Card; and art-lit mag Area Sneaks, edited by Rita Gonzalez and Joseph Mosconi.

As a research bloc, the Bureau attempts to cultivate composition, publication and distribution strategies that enlarge the public domain. It favors appropriations, impersonations, 'compost' poetries, belated conversations, unprintable jokes and doodles, 'unoriginal' literature, historical thefts and pastiche. The publication emphasis is on ephemeral works, short-run magazines and folios, short-lived reprints and excerpts in print-on-demand formats, and the occasional literary fetish objects of stupidly incomparable price and value.

Several reading series are hosted at 951 CKR, and we welcome writers whose work lacks the 'commercial tendency' while harboring the bright, high-minded intentions that often lead to broad panic, righteous perversions, improbable arguments, and the ill-served cul-de-sacs of genius. The series are coordinated by the aforementioned Messrs Maxwell and Mosconi. If you're sympatico, passing through town, or need a megaphone, 50 seats and a big blank space, give us a write.